"no chin"In a weird coincidence, I just learned last year that humans are the only primate that has a 'chin.' In fact, we're the only animal on the planet with a chin. There's not even a universally accepted theory on why our evolution produced chins.
In a weird coincidence, I just learned last year that humans are the only primate that has a ‘chin.’ In fact, we’re the only animal on the planet with a chin. There’s not even a universally accepted theory on why our evolution produced chins.
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YOu think last year is a weird coincidence, just within the last few hours I stumbled across the old Lloyd Pye lecture on youtube where he claims that all “pre-humans” (as anthropologists call them) are really more like primates that happen to walk upright. Their pelvic bones and legs are more in common with ‘humans’ but almost everything else is more like other primates, and that includes a lack of a chin. Other similarities to primates are the sloped forehead, conical rib cage, and more robust bone structure.
It’s way ‘out there’, but as far as being conspiracy-esque, it’s entertaining.
Obviously a remnant of the Chin dynasty...
So the Chinese wouldn't run out of names.................
So they don’t know why people have chins? But at any rate it means that Jay Leno is more evolved than the rest of us.
Speech?
Protection of the tongue and when tucked in to chest, the larynx?
Just a thought.
I think we have chins so we can put pillowcases on.
Maybe also for playing the fiddle.
In a weird coincidence, I just learned last year that humans are the only primate that has a ‘chin.’ In fact, we’re the only animal on the planet with a chin. There’s not even a universally accepted theory on why our evolution produced chins.
Very simple - we were made in the image of our Creator. We didn’t “evolve” from Neanderthal’s, Denosovians, or anyone else. We were made this way, period.
Sexual selection?